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And who told you that?
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Ben Cao was on the line. It was Fred Hayden. I knew I'd eventually remember Fred's name from University of Virginia. That's going to happen a lot, by the way. And the other person on the call was Peter Horby from England.
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Do you mean Georgia? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
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No, not the Georgia guy, no. The reason they called me was that they had worked as sort of an international team to set up clinical trials for respiratory viruses, mostly focused on flu, and China -- flu or small molecule inhibitors. Sorry, I forgot the second part. And so they were very interested in initially talking about using remdisivir in their clinical trials, which they eventually did in January.
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Christina Salazar
Which you were also involved in.
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No. My role was to call up Gilead collaborators and say, "The Chinese want to talk to you," and that's what I did.
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Did any of your research lead to --
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We had a paper that was coming out in Nature Communications on January 10th, and so I called the journal and asked them if it was okay if I could share it with the Chinese and the other people on the call, so we did.
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And so I have a little bit of information that might refresh your recollection. You just tell me if this sounds familiar. So Peter Daszak was also on the call. Does that refresh your --